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This role owns security architecture across enterprise solutions, platforms, networks, identity, mobility/endpoints, data, and cloud, bridging cybersecurity policy and controls with implementable designs, evidence, and risk decisions throughout the system lifecycle.\nThis is a hands-on architecture role. You'll be expected to produce real security designs and see them through review, implementation, and operations, not just set policy from a distance.\nThis is a hybrid role based out of Washington, DC. Candidates must be U.S. citizens.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Security Architecture & Design\nDevelop and assess security architectures, patterns, requirements, controls integration, trust boundaries, data flows, and identity and segmentation design.\nDesign logging, resilience, and operational safeguards into solution architecture.\nTranslate federal and agency security requirements into practical design decisions, implementation actions, and residual-risk statements.\n2. 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Communication & Advisory\nCommunicate security architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and residual risk clearly to engineers, architects, program managers, and Government stakeholders.\nSupport incident and problem learning to feed back into architecture improvements.\nRequirements\n·12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including significant time in security architecture or enterprise technical leadership.\nWorking knowledge of federal risk management, security controls, authorization, continuous monitoring, zero trust, identity, network, endpoint, cloud, application, data, and logging considerations.\nAbility to interpret security requirements and produce implementable designs, review findings, mitigations, and risk decisions.\nStrong communication skills, with experience engaging engineers, architects, program managers, and Government decision-makers.\nU.S. citizenship required.\nNice to Have\n·Direct federal, government, or mission-critical system security architecture experience.\nCISSP, CCSP, CISM, SABSA, GIAC, cloud security, or comparable security credentials.\nExperience with NIST RMF/control families, zero trust, cloud security, identity, endpoint security, segmentation, logging/SIEM, and vulnerability management.\nExperience documenting security architecture views in Sparx/Prolaborate or comparable architecture/modeling tools.\nCore Capabilities:\nAdvanced and Managed IT Services\nAgile Software Development\nDevSecOps\nCybersecurity\nHealth IT\nC4ISR & SIGINT\nData Center Engineering & Operations\nEngineering & Installation\nWhy ActioNet?\nAt ActioNet, our Passion for Quality is at the heart of everything we do:\nCommitment to Employees: We are committed to making ActioNet a great place to work and continue to invest in our ActioNeters.\nCommitment to Customers: We are committed to our customers by driving and sustaining Service Delivery Excellence.\nCommitment to Community: We are committed to giving back to our community, helping others, and making the world a better place for our next generation.\nActioNet is proud to be named a Top Workplacefor the twelfth year in a row (2014 - 2025). 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